Re: Reduce pinning in btree indexes

From: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
Cc: Kevin Grittner <kgrittn(at)ymail(dot)com>, "pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Reduce pinning in btree indexes
Date: 2015-03-13 13:17:31
Message-ID: CA+TgmoZCpGO8MSgQH55LGd5+NUA=sLoDuz29A=qmCe_wirY8xg@mail.gmail.com
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On Fri, Mar 13, 2015 at 8:52 AM, Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> wrote:
> On 15 February 2015 at 00:19, Kevin Grittner <kgrittn(at)ymail(dot)com> wrote:
>> What they wanted was what happened in the other database product --
>> if a snapshot got sufficiently old that cleaning up the MVCC data
>> was a problem *and* the snapshot was used again *and* it read a
>> page which had been modified far enough back that it was not
>> possible to return correct data, then they wanted to receive a
>> "snapshot too old" error. I wrote a patch to do that...
>
> So, please lets see the patch. It seems useful for core Postgres.

It was submitted here:

http://www.postgresql.org/message-id/136937748.3364317.1423964815320.JavaMail.yahoo@mail.yahoo.com

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Robert Haas
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